The Block Security team works with other teams at Block to build world-class products for both customers and employees. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that every single experience with Block is simple, secure, and safe. Block’s Detection and Response Engineering Team (DART) is passionate about detecting and responding to some of the most sophisticated threats facing today’s networks. Software Engineering within DART achieves this by building a highly scalable intrusion detection platform and data warehouse - we are the foundation of detection and response and we love it!

You will: 

• Use your creativity and expertise to build scalable cloud-native data pipelines and detection systems that delight 

• Collaborate as a team to iterate towards our best - such as reviewing code changes, suggesting process improvements, and offering design ideas 

• Participate in our on call rotation to ensure our platform and customers have support when they need it the most

You have: 

• 2+ years of industry experience as a programer, developer, SWE, or similar job roles.

• A strong interest in security and growing your career in the direction of InfoSec (prior experience in InfoSec not required).

• Experience working on any of the public clouds - AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

• Experience in identifying, measuring and monitoring service level indicators (SLIs) and automating the threshold alerting for them.

• An ability to debug and optimize existing code, troubleshoot outages, and investigate performance issues in a large distributed environment

 Technologies we use and teach

• Google Cloud Platform products such as Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, and Google Kubernetes Engine 

• Amazon Web Services products such as Cloudtrail, Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service, and Lambda 

• Ruby, Go, Java

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.